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Billy Louise glanced uncertainly at him and then at Marthy, facing her grimly. She did not know what to think, and she showed it. "How do you mean the real rustlers?" She began hesitatingly; and hesitation was not by any means a mental habit with Billy Louise. "I mean just what I said." Charlie's manner was becoming more natural, more confident.
A small, dark, moving dot split the line where purple sage met blue sky. That dot was a band of riders. "Pull the black, Bess." They slowed from gallop to canter, then to trot. The fresh and eager horses did not like the check. "Bern, Black Star has great eyesight." "I wonder if they're Tull's riders. They might be rustlers. But it's all the same to us."
They looked off at the party of rustlers, and several expressed the wish that the captain would stay and fight them; but he replied that they were quite certain to get enough of fighting before they were many days older, and he followed Hawkridge. At sight of the flight, the rustlers uttered tantalizing shouts and discharged their Winchesters in the air.
It may be said that Monteith Sterry's main hope for the success of his perilous scheme lay in its boldness. It was not to be supposed that the rustlers, surrounding the besieged on every hand, would forget the probability of just such an attempt as he made.
Officers and soldiers to and from the Fort, stage-drivers and cowmen, homesteaders and rustlers, discussed the apprehension of Sinclair.
A four-months' calf was nudging the mother with an inquisitive muzzle. Ferguson took a sharp glance at its ears and then drove it off to get a look at the brand. There was none. "Sleeper," he said quietly. "With the Two Diamond ear-mark. Most range bosses make a mistake in not brandin' their calves. Seems as if they're trustin' to luck that rustlers won't work on them.
At any rate, here were the two contending parties racing toward each other, and firing as they galloped forward. And when they were all out in the open it was evident that the rustlers far outnumbered the boy ranchers and their friends. One thing, however, was in favor of Bud and the others with him.
"By George, that's a stumper," replied Pan, sitting down in the shade. "Huh! Reckon you figger we ought to pack them back to Marco an' give them church services," said Blinky, in disgust. "Jest a couple of two-bit rustlers!" "Somebody will come out here after their bodies, surely. Dick Hardman would want to " "Mebbe someone will, but not thet hombre," declared Blinky.
He was to let the rustlers pass him if they rode for the ford, and then help to cut off the retreat of any who escaped the sergeant, while if they found the ice too thin for loaded beasts or rode towards the bridge, a flash from his carbine would bring his comrades across in time to join the others who were watching that trail.
The rustlers, whoever they were, had long been at the game, and now that there was reason for them to show their cunning they did it. Early in July the hot weather came. Down on the red ridges of the Tonto it was hot desert. The nights were cool, the early mornings were pleasant, but the day was something to endure.
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